Brass bands and the beni phenomenon in urban east Africa
- Title
- Brass bands and the beni phenomenon in urban east Africa
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Subject
- African Music
- Abstract
- With the advent of the German and British colonial administrations to the coast of East Africa in the late 1800s came also the complements of military machinery and military music. This paper will investigate the impact of the music of the European military brass band on the coastal and inland areas of Tanganyika as manifested in the development, florescence and demise of beni ngoma.
- Description
- pages: 72-81
- Created Date
- July 12, 2017
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
-
Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Author
-
Martin, Stephen H.
Value Annotations
- Is Part Of
- University of Alabama
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-0256
- Identifier
-
1931
Value Annotations
- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
- WissKI URL
- 79608
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